Tag Archives: standing stones

Maiden Mother Crone, Part 5 – The Maiden by Helen Jones

Posted on October 11, 2017 by

Reblogged from Journey to Ambeth:  Stone and rain. Rain and stone. It seemed to be a theme of the weekend. No matter the weather, when we reached any stone of significance the rain would fall. From soft misty drizzle to … Continue reading →

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Solstice of the Moon: Graven images

Posted on October 7, 2017 by

Our last visit of a weekend that seemed to have flown by all too quickly was to a little church on the edge of Aberdeen. The sun finally decided to show its face… though it still managed to rain anyway, … Continue reading →

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Solstice of the Moon: Circles out of time

Posted on October 6, 2017 by

It looked, for a while, as if we might escape being rained on at our second site of the morning, but no… that would have been too much to ask The ritual cleansing would  continue. We  were heading for another … Continue reading →

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Solstice of the Moon: Sacred earth

Posted on October 5, 2017 by

The weather was looking none to promising for the final day of the workshop, but at least it wasn’t really raining. It seemed incredible, under the heavy grey of the sky, that we’d had the clear weather-window the night before, … Continue reading →

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Solstice of the Moon: Circle of Timeless Light

Posted on October 4, 2017 by

A few stars twinkled above Inverurie as our group gathered for dinner. It wasn’t even raining much. That probably explains why, some time after nine o’clock, when the moonless night had well and truly fallen, four people would once again … Continue reading →

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Maiden Mother Crone, Part 4 – Imbalance by Helen Jones

Posted on October 3, 2017 by

Reblogged from Journey to Ambeth: Sigh. I should have expected this. On the last Silent Eye weekend I’d attended there had been a place that had shaken me, unexpectedly, making my breath shorten, my heart pound. And so it is, … Continue reading →

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Solstice of the Moon: Switching the lights on

Posted on October 3, 2017 by

We had returned to Easter Aquhorthies for a second visit. It was still raining, but this time the sky was much brighter than the iron-grey deluge of the day before and there was already a sense of revisiting an old … Continue reading →

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